Bell Convalescent Hospital

Bell Convalescent Hospital is one of four available facilities located in Bell Gardens, California. We awarded this nursing home an overall rating of B-, somewhat surprisingly somewhat surprisingly resulting in it being ranked the number one rated facility in the city. As far as we can see, this nursing home should be a good fit for most people. The best part of this place's report card was its remarkable nursing grade. Nursing grades are discussed in the next section.

On top of earning a great overall grade, this nursing home really excelled in the category of nursing, where it received an A. Our nursing score is based on several factors. The most heavily weighted variable is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Another one of this facility's more favorable category scores came in the area of long-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a B+. Facilities that excel in this category tend to provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 99.449036 percent of its residents, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is often a deadly ailment for nursing home residents so we like it when a facility doesn't take any chances. The last datapoint we looked at was its hospitalization rate. Here we found that this nursing home had 1.99 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is middle of the road in this area.

Next we looked at this facility's inspection rating This is based on the nursing home's recent inspections. We awarded it a grade of C in this category. This is a middle of the road grade in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some are relatively insignificant. This facility was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were category J through L deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to put resident health or safety in imminent harm or jeopardy. In the bigger picture, this inspection report definitely could be worse.

The next area we rated is short-term care. We gave it a grade of C in that category. This is a decent grade in this category. With our short-term care score, we attempt to forge a meaningful gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at the facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 15.4 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.